Government will name and shame companies who promote themselves as tax avoiders, says Osborne.

3/20/2013 1:14:20 PM

Osborne: Extra money is to made available for Equitable Life policy holders. Extended to those who bought with-profits annuities before 1992, with payments of £5,000 and extra £5,000 for those on lowest incomes.

3/20/2013 1:14:48 PM

Osborne: New tax avoidance agreements with tax havens like Jersey.

3/20/2013 1:15:38 PM

Cuts in corporation tax again ... unhelpful when most small businesses don't make enough to pay it! Little real help for the economy!

3/20/2013 1:15:50 PM

BREAKING NEWS Osborne: Cap-on social care costs to come in in 2017 and protect savings above £72,000, with the threshold for means tested help raised from £23,000 to £118,000.

3/20/2013 1:15:56 PM

Total borrowing is up by an extra £61bn. Forecast for borrowing is £108bn next yr, then £97bn, £87bn, £61bn, £42bn #Budget

NEWS Osborne: New Help-to-Buy scheme for those struggling to find mortgage deposits will include £3.5 billion for shared equity loans, and a Government interest-free loan worth 20% of the value of a new build house. New mortgage guarantee, sufficient to support £130 billion worth of loans, to help people who cannot afford a big deposit.

3/20/2013 1:17:41 PM

RT @ToryTreasury: Radical new 3 year Mortgage Guarantee from April 2014 for 80%-95% mortgages - reducing the cost of £130bn of mortgage ...

BREAKING NEWS Osborne: Rise in personal allowance brought forward to 2014, meaning no income tax on the first £10,000 of earnings. Raising income tax threshold will mean means '£700' less paid by working families.

3/20/2013 1:24:48 PM

Damian McBride ‏@DPMcBride, Gordon Brown's former spin doctor: I don't get how he's able to cut beer duty and raise wine duty - they're pegged together in law (EU rules, etc.).

3/20/2013 1:25:19 PM

NEWS Osborne: New Employment Allowance will take the first £2,000 off the employer National Insurance bill of every company in the country. Around 450,000 small businesses - one third of all employers - will pay no employer National Insurance at all after introduction of Employment Allowance in April next year.

3/20/2013 1:26:09 PM

Big cut in business NI costs - first £2000 of employer NI scrapped

3/20/2013 1:26:17 PM

Another huge boost to small businesses, charities, community sports clubs with first £2k off employee nics #budget2013